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To carry out their activities, Research Teams of the Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences have developed high-profile technological platforms in many areas : biomedical imaging, structural biology, metabolomics, High-Throughput screening, level 3 microbiological safety laboratory...
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An international collaboration of researchers in psychiatry, led by a team from NeuroSpin, has shown that machine learning algorithms identify a neuroanatomical signature of schizophrenia that is reproducible in the various image acquisition centers and for the different stages of the disease evolution. These results offer prospects for the early detection and management of people at risk of psychotic transition.
A collaboration involving the SB2SM (I2BC@Saclay) works on bio-inspired processes to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2), a major environmental problem. Researchers have formulated a new catalyzer very efficient for reducing CO2 in water. The study has been published in Chemical Communications.
As part of the InFoR-Autism scientific program involving NeuroSpin, a new neuroimaging study has revealed a correlation between decreased local anatomical connectivity and social cognitive deficits in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Published in the renowned journal Brain, the results challenge the dominant theoretical model explaining ASD and could pave the way for the exploration of new therapeutic approaches.
The goal of the PRIME-DE data exchange is to make primate brain imaging datasets acquired in laboratories available to the entire scientific community. PRIME-DE was created by an international consortium of 22 teams including one from NeuroSpin, all working with macaques. The PRIME-DE initiative, presented in an article published in Neuron should enhance the statistical relevance of acquired data and limit the number of animals used in research.
Rad52 has garnered great attention lately as a promising target in the battle against certain types of breast cancer. A team from IRCM, in partnership with researchers from the Frédéric-Joliot and Gustave Roussy Institutes, has shed new light on this protein.
A SHFJ research team (LDM-TEP, GIP Cyceron, Caen) has previously developed and produced a radiopharmaceutical, the [18F]-Fludarabine, to detect lymphomas using PET scan. The team has recently conducted a preclinical study that shows the molecule can help in diagnosis of cerebral lymphoma by differentiate it from glioblastoma, the main brain tumor. A clinical study should be launched before the end of the year.
A research team from the SB2SM (I2BC@Saclay), in collaboration with the CNRS, SOLEIL , Universities of Paris-Sud, Aix-Marseille and Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III and Gustave Roussy, has resolved structures of two complexes involved in radiation-induced DNA damages. These results were published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology on October, the 5th.
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